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His mental competency is still being assessed even though he has been in custody a year. p.j. crowley, then the state department's spokesman, said the handling of his imprisonment was counterproducive and stupid and resigned shortly thereafter. i spoke with crowley today. >> any time you have to explain why a guy standing naked in a jail cell you have a policy that needs to be desperately reviewed. the pentagon has done that. >> reporter: i asked former marine judge solis how it may shake out now. >> the controversy over his treatment, move to leavenworth, the effect of this trial. >> if they ...

At 5s d, there is a visiting judge. judge roll's name plate is still there, his portrait still there. this clearly a difficult day here at this courthouse. this will be his third appearance, loughner's, the first in tucson. we also expect family members of the victims to arrive here shortly to see loughner face-to-face. other things that will be discussed today besides those pleas, mental competency. loughner, of course, had a history of mental illness. and the united states wants him to go under a psychiatric evaluation. the judge is expected to talk about that today, possibly rule on it. leg...

Confirms to fox news he launched investigation into allegation that mentally incapacitated person may be exposed there. 35-year-old james stein suffered severe brain damage in 1987 when he jumped to a river to save his sister's life and court declared him incapacitated. his father is charging that a vulnerable adult was exploited. he says voter fraud crime was committed because james is mentally incompetent and very coachable. it's my belief that someone else filled in his ballot for him. he tells us that he is irate about this and his son was used and when he asked for whom his son voted for ...

Won't comment on the tapes but says his client is unstable and the tapes may be used at competency hearings. >> it would be a baseline as to what his mental competency was at that point in time compared to what it might be at the time of the hearing. that would be extremely relevant. >> contacted by cnn on the skro discovery of the tapes, the cia said the agency's past detention program has been subject to multiple reviews by multiple government organization under two administrations. some of those examinations continue to this day a year half after the program itself went out of operation. th...

I'm wrong, bin alp shibh indicated he wants to plead guilty. >> he intends to plead guilt but an issue not yet resolved because of questions about his mental competency that haven't been answered at those hearings yet. >> thank you very much. this coming in from chicago. the breaking news right now we're told the juries has reached a decision. the verdict in the corruption trial of the former governor of illinois, rod blagojevich and his brother robert blagojevich. we are expecting to hear the fate of the ex-governor of illinois when the verdict will be read in federal court. that will take ...